A FESTIVE FEELING and A SORE BACK!

 

                   

Hello everyone,

Welcome to December 1st.  This morning I woke up feeling very bright and cheerful, very unlike me first thing in the morning, then I realised it was the first day of December and now the countdown begins.  Not for me the advent calendar, because I would eat all the chocolates all at once...  sorry but I`m like a little child where chocolate is concerned!  No I can`t explain it but I just feel Christmassy.  What I want to be able to do is put some music on my journal, I just don`t seem to be able to do it.  So if anyone out there knows how to do it....HELP!  because I really need it.

This morning Jim and I went to Tesco armed with two large shopping trolleys.  Two hours later we left with two completely laden shopping trolleys, and we didn`t get it all either.  We do have the majority of Christmas foodstuffs, including the all the meat, pickles, sauces, Christmas puddings, cakes, choccies etc. and loads more besides.  I know that once again we`ve bought far too much stuff and will end up giving Danny and Kerry stuff to take home.  I always say, next year I`ll buy less, but I don`t...I suppose I`ll never learn.  While in the shop I was reaching up to take something from the shelf when I felt a pain in the small of my back.  I had been hit really hard with a shopping basket, the culprit, a woman , just looked at me as if I shouldn`t have been there and didn`t even apologise.  But, I got her back later when she was trying to get past me and Jim in one of the shopping aisles.  We pretended not to see her and she had to struggle through the tiny gap that was there, and all the `excuse mes` in the world didn`t help her!  Of course she wasn`t very happy, but so what, I wasn`t too thrilled when she wallopped me in the back!

Jake is a lot better this morning but last night he was very quiet and all he wanted to do was lay his head on my lap.  He was definitely poorly and I think he must have hada doggy bug of some sort.  I`m glad it wasn`t the chew bone but even more glad that it wasn`t a return bout of colitis.  It`s very debilitating for him and there`s little that we can do except starve him or in the worst case take him to the vet for a course of antibiotics and steroids.  The vet doesn`t want a young dog like Jake to have too many courses of  medication as it can shorten his life expectancy so it`s best to starve him and give him boiled rice and chicken until his tummy is back to normal.

Today has been very dismal and it started to get dark here at about 2.30.  I took Jake for a stroll and the light was fading fast.  The weather forecast says we are going to get gales and heavy rain by this evening, well we`ve been getting the rain since this morning and the wind is quite strong already.  I suppose we are in for some rough weather tonight.

Well, I must go and put some dinner in the oven, then read some journals, then if I`ve got time write out some Christmas cards, I`ve usually done written them and posted them by now.  I hope you are all having a lovely day, Bye Bye for now and take care.